Re: MS AD <-> OpenLDAP

[Gavin Henry <ghenry@OpenLDAP.org>]

----- "Howard Chu" <hyc@symas.com> wrote:

> marcelo.xavier@caixa.gov.br wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Iâm developing a MS Active Directory plug-in to replicate users and
> > passwords to OpenLDAP
> >
> > The main objective is improve migration from MS AD to OpenLDAP
> >
> > Have anyone interest on this?
> 
> Yes, absolutely.
> 
> > This project can make part off OpenLdap solution or not?
> 
> Sure.
> 
> I don't believe you need to write a special plugin to retrieve
> passwords from 
> AD; MS already has a password sync plugin.
> 
> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb463208.aspx
> 
> All that's needed is to write a small module for slapd that reads
> these sync 
> messages.

Maybe it is a trivial job after all!

-- 
Kind Regards,

Gavin Henry.
OpenLDAP Engineering Team.

E ghenry@OpenLDAP.org

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